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pugwash

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Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« on: April 17, 2011, 08:16:17 am »
I have now got plans/hull ready to start my next build which will be F14 HMS Leopard in 1/96 scale, but as I start one
I like to get prepared for the following build which I have decided will be HMS Lion also in 1/96.
She was the only one of the 3 cruisers in her class that was not converted into a helicopter carrying cruiser and was our last
conventional cruiser.  I know Jecobin supplies plans for the helicopter conversion but does anybody know of plans for the class
as built.  Also I dont want to build the hull if possible and am sure that someone used to provide a hull in GRP but I can't find
anything on the web.  Has anyone any idea where plans/hull can be obtained.
any info gratefully received.

Geoff
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 09:30:38 am »
Cammett has both the as built and the converted hulls Geoff
I think they have drawings also plus alot of the PE accessories
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pugwash

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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 09:44:31 am »
Thanks Colin - I thought it was Cammett but there is nothing on their website - will have to give Robin a ring.
PS Have those plans arrived safely??
Geoff
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pugwash

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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 09:57:45 am »
Thanks Colin yes Cammett do the hull pre and post conversion but I will have to source "as built" plans elsewhere
Anybody any ideas besides NMM

Geoff
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 12:35:24 pm »
Geoff
give me a few hours I may know a place :-))

PS just arrived in from post office with nice brown tube :-))
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 12:49:21 pm »
 :-)) :-)) :-))

Geoff
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2011, 12:49:33 pm »
even quicker 3 built in the clyde according to the National Archives of scotland the drawings went to the following places;

HMS Lion -Scotts, Greenock (Yard No611)
Drawings will be held at the Glasgow University archives (who's rates make the NMM seem reasonable)

HMS Tiger- John Brown, Clydebank Yard (No593)
Drawings also in Glasgow uni

HMS Blake- Fairfields (Yard No 710)
Drawings will be in the Glasgow Archives (mitchell Libruary)

National Archives http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/shipbuilding.asp

Glasgow Uni archiveshttp://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/a-zofguides/

Glasgow archiveshttp://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/index.php
Hope this helps
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pugwash

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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2011, 12:51:34 pm »
Thanks Colin - time to write some e-mails

Geoff
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2011, 01:34:11 pm »
Robin at Cammett also has the main 6" turrets, 3" turrets and funnels (though these will need modifying as they are the raised helicopter cruiser funnels). I bought a Tiger hull and the available fittings from Robin, but I haven't made a start yet as I'm working on a Battle class destroyer. I'm using plans from the NMM and Jecobin. Mine will be HMS Tiger in all gun form.
Regards.  :}
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pugwash

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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2011, 02:40:02 pm »
Thanks RSM - enjoy your battle class - just finished mine. Only reason I will model it as Lion is because the ship
I was on at the time( the battle class)  was in company with Lion in the Med for quite a time and a I have a few photos of her
when we were alongside for a jackstay transfer.

Geoff
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2011, 07:00:51 pm »
PM sent that may be of help.
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2012, 09:02:55 pm »
Try Swan Hunter and Wigham Richarson at Walsend if they're still around they may have the as fitted from the 1942 build.I saw her in 1956 being fitted out in Chatham Dockyard.If they're not around you may get a redirect,try it you've nothing to loose.
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2012, 10:22:37 pm »
Terry I could be wrong here but I believe when Lion came down to the Tyne to be finished in the 50s
they had to start by removing all the superstructure as there had been a complete re-design since the 40s
so the original plans would have been no good.
I managed with the some help from a Glaswegian model maker who is making Tiger  to get a set of plans from
the|Mitchell Library - good plans and at a very reasonable price. Just got to finish Leopard and I can get started.
Thanks anyway
Geoff
 
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2012, 12:19:34 pm »
I have the Deans marine HMS Swiftsure hull which is a better hull than cammetts and also got my plans from NMM for a arm & a leg but well worth it not sure when i will start on HMS Lion but one day i will,i got HMS Manchester & Ajax in1/96 plus HMS Lion battlecruiser in 1/128 all three are John Haynes hulls which come with bilge keels moulded on before i get to HMS Lion the last all gun cruiser!
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Re: Preparing for next build HMS LION C34
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2012, 02:52:47 pm »
Condorman, yes I have the Swiftsure hull as well - got the turrets  and p.e. frets from Cammetts and
the electrics and motors from Action and George Sitek did the four prop shafts and rudder so I am ready to
start when I have finished the present build.
 
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